CVE-2007-1239 Information

Description

Microsoft Excel 2003 does not properly parse .XLS files which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a file with a (1) corrupted XML format or a (2) corrupted XLS format which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Reference

http://securityvulns.com/news/Microsoft/Excel/XML/DoS.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461373/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22717